Incidents in country:
6 incidents catalogued
A dataset dubbed FortiBleed exposed valid Fortinet FortiGate VPN credentials — including plaintext passwords — for 73,932 firewall URLs across 194 countries, the product of a Russian-speaking crew that reused passwords from earlier breaches and infostealer logs rather than any new Fortinet vulnerability.
A former Coupang employee accessed personal data on 33.7 million customer accounts of South Korea's largest e-commerce platform. Coupang announced a $1.17 billion compensation plan; its head of Korean e-commerce resigned.
In March 2020, the Korean interior decoration website ???? (Decorating the House) suffered a data breach which impacted almost 1.3 million members. Served via the URL ggumim.co.kr, the exposed data included email addresses, names, usernames and phone numbers, all of which was subsequently shared…
South Korean police attributed a breach of online retailer Interpark — exposing the personal data of more than 10 million shoppers — to North Korea's intelligence agency, which used spearphishing and then demanded a multi-million-dollar bitcoin ransom.
A contractor at the Korea Credit Bureau copied the card and identity data of about 20 million customers of KB Kookmin, Lotte and NH Nonghyup card firms onto a USB drive and sold it — one of the largest financial-data thefts in South Korean history.
Hackers using a poisoned software-update channel stole the personal data of about 35 million Nate and Cyworld users — names, resident-registration numbers, phone numbers and encrypted passwords — in what was then South Korea's largest data breach.